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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 24, 2010 10:39:15 GMT
Folk Rock: Liege & Lief - Fairport Convention The Tain - Horslips Hark! The Village Wait - Steeleye Span The Cutter & The Clan - Runrig
Folk: Aqaba - June Tabor Sweet William's Ghost - George Deacon & Marion Ross The Young Tradition - Galleries Albion Band - Rise Up Like The Sun Anything by Robin & Barry Dransfield Anything by Nick Drake
"Not sure which catagory to put it in" catagory: Solid Air - John Martyn The Storm - Moving Hearts Afrocelt Soundsystem - Volumes 2 & 3
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kleynan
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Post by kleynan on Mar 6, 2010 21:41:19 GMT
Anything by The Corries... scottish folk music is just a completely different league.... Though South African music gets up there! Check out "Juluka" for some amazing tunes.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 7, 2010 1:19:45 GMT
Anything by The Corries... scottish folk music is just a completely different league.... Though South African music gets up there! Check out "Juluka" for some amazing tunes.
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Post by witkacy on Apr 1, 2012 19:50:08 GMT
Folk Rock: Liege & Lief - Fairport Convention The Tain - Horslips Hark! The Village Wait - Steeleye Span ... maddog These ones you've listed I recognize as the classics for sure... I'll try to make the list a little longer... To make things easier I treat all of them as "Folk Rock"... Kebnekajse II - Kebnekajse Ougenweide - Ougenweide Drunk And Happy - Prudence On The Shore - Trees EDIT: Looks like I forgot about this one: Swaddling Songs - Mellow Candle
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 2, 2012 7:00:11 GMT
Lovely choices!
My folk/rock choices tended to be American - back in the 70's it would have been, It's A Beautiful Day,etc.
I looked at your LastFM page wow you've met everyone including Messrs Anderson/Barre and Perry ;D ;D GREAT pics!
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 2, 2012 8:21:21 GMT
Folk Rock: Liege & Lief - Fairport Convention The Tain - Horslips Hark! The Village Wait - Steeleye Span ... maddog These ones you've listed I recognize as the classics for sure... I'll try to make the list a little longer... To make things easier I treat all of them as "Folk Rock"... Kebnekajse II - Kebnekajse Ougenweide - Ougenweide Drunk And Happy - Prudence On The Shore - Trees EDIT: Looks like I forgot about this one: Swaddling Songs - Mellow Candle Thanks for posting the above witkacy. I'll have a good listen later today.
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hipflaskandy
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Post by hipflaskandy on Apr 3, 2012 9:11:03 GMT
I find it interesting, some of the video tracks proffered here – held up as examples of folk-rock. It’s apparently a broad church then! I have to confess I differ as to whether some of these fit the trades-description-act – sorry – just my own opinion, mind.
Bonny Ship Diamond - Corries – that’s quite definitely folk, not folk rock – where’s the ‘rock’ element here?
Kebnekajse II – Kebnekajse - a bit nearer the criteria – and interesting line-up…. two bass gtrs!
Ougenweide – Ougenweide – once again, folk, not folk rock – where’s the ‘rock’ element here?
Drunk And Happy – Prudence – well, there’s a rock element to this, but less detectable is any real ‘folk’ content, I feel.
On The Shore – Trees – now that’s a real nod to Fairport-(Leige)-style folk-rock. Much more representative of the genre ‘folk-rock’ than some of the above!
Swaddling Songs - Mellow Candle – same comments apply as I made regarding the ‘Trees’ track.
Where most alleged ‘folk-rock’ falls flat (for me), is that most of the so-called folk-bands forget to honour the ‘rock’ part of the equation. They need to rock-out more to qualify in my book. Too watered-down and it all becomes tame and toothless – or just reverts back to just some ‘other’ way of being, well, ‘just’ folk… and not folk-rock.
Of course, I’ll take into account the fact that only one track per band has been put forward – mebbe not wholly representative of their output. So I’ll do further delving and investigate each suggestion made in more depth. Thanks, at least, to the above contributors for the interesting paths given for me to follow!
I’m gonna bang (off m’ ipod) Thin Lizzy’s ‘Emerald’ track on, good and loud, while I transfer this to the forum ;o) Then I’m gonna treat mesen to a long overdue listen to Tull’s SFTW/HH albums. Some of the folky material on there rocks out y’ken!
Cheers – HFA (who considers himself a folk-rocker)
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